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longship

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27. Actually I believe that they are Welsh.

Reply to Wednesdays (Reply #25)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 05:47 PM

Mar 2016

Adopted by the Suomilainens* -- yup! I are one -- who settled "up back nort" in the U.P. and worked in the copper and iron mines.

*Suomi == Finland. Suomilainen == Finnish.

BTW, my mother was fluent in both Finnish and English to her dying day. She was the youngest of twelve by two Finnish parents (who immigrated via Ellis Island just after the turn of the 20th century) and was born in Wisconsin. One of her brothers was born in Finland and was named after Czar Nicholas because Finland was ruled by Russia then. There was no English spoken at home; my grandmother never spoke it. My mother learned English from her older brothers and other relatives.

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